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Caffè - Cioccolato - Medicina - Botanica - Dalla Bona, Giovanni
Of the Use and Abuse of Coffee, 1760
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€ 100 - 200
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Verona, Pierantonio Bernio, 1760. In 4°. Woodcut initials and friezes, light and rare flourishes, some rare halos, without binding.
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The illustrious Veronese doctor Giovanni Dalla Bona (1712-1786), involved in the important issues of Enlightenment medicine, did his utmost in the fight against the uncontrolled use of luxuries (coffee, chocolate, brandy) intervening with an exhaustive and at the same time ironic treatment in the debate between for and against. Convinced of the need to distinguish case by case, he examines both the damage to health and the beneficial actions exerted by the widespread drink of coffee on various individuals, after recalling that even according to Galen the same substance can cause different reactions. With a more concise dissertation, he goes on to examine the other two drinks that were very much in use and fashionable at the time: chocolate and brandy but, while for the first he compares the positive and negative aspects, for the second he expresses full condemnation by recalling that, if the «spirit of wine» is routinely used to «stop the blood overflowing from the wounds» it explains the spread of inflammatory processes, apoplexies, paralysis in individuals who abuse rosolio.
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